readme.md

Github backup script

Русская версия инструкции здесь - https://amorev.ru/full-github-backup/

This is simple bash script for backup all of your user's or organization's repositories. Inspired by stongo/github-backup

Creating personal oauth token

Firsly, you should create your personal oauth token.

Connecting ssh key of your account

Script clones all of your repositories, using ssh clone. So you must to add your ssh-key to your github account. How-to is here

Running script

Next step is running of my script

# Fetching all your user repositories
GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN=<your-token-here> bash backup.sh

# Fetching all your organization repositories
GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN=<your-token-here> bash backup.sh org <your-org-name>

All your repositories will be fetched and stored as .tgz file.

Restoring data

# extract archive to /tmp
tar -C /tmp -xf repository.git.tgz

# clone project.git normally. /tmp/project.git is what gets extracted and is the output of the initial git clone --mirror
git clone /tmp/project.git

# change directory to the project
cd project

# change the remote url
git remote set-url origin https://new-remote.com/project.git

# push to new remote repository
git push origin master --tags